Why does Atheism dominate school science?

DR. JAMES CONNORSt. Augustine

Published Sunday, June 11, 2006

Public schools now embrace religious teaching with exclusive bias, despite America's belief in the division of religion and state and the freedom of choice. Though education in America is among the best in the world, science classes whole-heartedly teach on the very foundational precepts of atheism. Paramount to atheism is the explanation of the origin of the species which atheists attest occurred by way of evolution. Atheists sanitize their view by saying that they are simply "secular'' and that theirs is the only "scientific'' view.

Evolution has become antiquated since 26-year-old Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Islands in 1835. Though a courageous and adventuresome naturalist, he still missed 50 percent of the species of animals there as modern scuba diving shows. Modern day science, through the fascinating and detailed study of physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, embryology, neurology and physics second law of thermodynamics (spontaneous change leads to less order not more order), make it statistically problematic to still logically conclude that thousands of species, often male and female concurrently, occurred by random chance and natural selection. Can one take a tire and roll it and roll it for a million years down the road and get an airplane that flies itself, maintains itself and reproduces? Even the most common housefly is an example of intelligent design, not happenstance.

There is variation within a species, yet evolution has never ever proven that one species arose from another species. After 170 years of searching, the missing link is still missing.

Today our local high school biology book (page 49) brazenly shows in the same progression a frog, a mouse, a monkey, an ape and then man! I thought only in fairy tales do you get a prince from a frog.

Electron microscope discoveries and exponentially advanced technology have far outgrown Darwin's pre-Civil War era to the point that is painfully clear that life on this planet happened not by meandering chance but by intelligent design. Being observant and analytical, perhaps even Darwin himself, who started out a creationist, would today turn full circle back to creationism.

Politically what can we expect then from a system that backs the fundamentals of the "survival of the fittest'' view? Even though we have been a free democracy, in our schools we endorse the same teaching that communist Russia backed -- Atheism.

Armed with this "secular'' bias, courts are struggling with the notion that evolution is just religious hearsay dogma, not actual fact. School systems disallow any other view such as intelligent design (creationism). This current atheistic teaching in our schools has festered prejudice against religious freedom rather than tolerance.

Now even simple greetings like "Merry Christmas'' have become taboo in retail society. Some say intelligent design should only be taught at home or in church. Yet one must ask why should tax-supported schools exclusively present evolution as the only socially acceptable view, when in fact, it is merely the foundation of secular atheism backed by artists' fantasy drawings? Might our nation and schools be a safer and more compassionate place if we weren't so busy teaching dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest fundamentals?

Hmm. While visiting the concentration camp of Dachau, I was surprised to learn that Germany was a democracy initially, but cracked under hard times; steeped in Arian secular evolutionary thinking, it was all too quick to disenfranchise its theistic minority which was deemed not as adapted.

A lot has changed since 1835. Slavery was abolished, germ theory and pasteurization were discovered, women and blacks won equality, we put a man on the moon and we do open heart surgery -- even in our local hospital.

Isn't it about time we were not so narrow-minded and prejudiced by teaching only atheistic evolution? Personally, I enjoy my friends on both sides of the fence. Yet it's time we exercised some good old American tolerance and freedom of choice by teaching both intelligent design and atheistic evolution equally in public schools so students and parents have the freedom of choice.